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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alf King" data-source="post: 1517541" data-attributes="member: 22">If you think your camera is in danger of packing up Tony then you should buy a new body before you come out. The park shops certainly wouldn't stock anything like that and if they did the price would make you faint - electronic/optical equipment doesn't come cheap in SA.How about being really cute, getting a new camera and also saving some money? Order a new body through Currys and arrange to collect it from the duty free shop at Heathrow (or wherever) on your way out, which should make it tax free. On your return it will be a used item so shouldn't be taxable.I don't take many photo's and use a Panasonic bridge camera yet returned from Kruger with 600+ shots, so the risk of yours going wrong is far too great to bear.Also spare cards and a spare battery, complete with charger. The roads get very dusty and it gets everywhere so appropriate cloths, blowers etc for cleaning your lens is also necessary.At the risk of being slightly critical I think your itinerary looks very ambitious. Until you visit the park it is hard to credit just how much time you may spend parked up simply watching. I didn't have an itinerary anything like as ambitious as yours yet still undershot considerably. This means that I now have to return sometime soon - oh dear, how will I cope?</blockquote>